I'm not terribly great at hardware stuff but from the looks of your setup and comparing it to my old setup I think a new processor maybe in order. Like an i5 2500k or something. Because I think processing is pretty intensive in wow so having to process 25 players and everything might be straining your processor. I'm just guessing though

Originally Posted by Traknel

Yes it is. In fact, the next expansion is going to be called "Mists of Metzen" and is just going to be various mobs with his face stuck on them.

Sorry to say it but you have 3 year old processor, and raiding 25-mans in WoW is not compatible with cheap-ass supermarket computers.

Overclocking is best budget solution but your OC options are probably severely limited. Nothing short of motherboard+cpu+ram upgrade for about $300-400 will give you significant speed boost in 25-man raids.

If neither of those solutions above will work for you, only thing you can do is put settings lower until the game runs at playable speed, starting from shadow quality.

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Its strange to think you cant handle WoW at a "high" fps with that setup.....

I used to have a intel core I7 920 bloomfield, wich isnt that much better than yoursedit: looked up the specs of both processors, and it looks like it IS much better :P ah well, if ur realy unhappy with the current specs of your pc, try to upgrade your processor + motherboard ( I5 or I7 ).

+ a GTX 275, wich is about the same ( a tiny bit worse ) than your video card, and i can play everything on ultra.

Its strange to think you cant handle WoW at a "high" fps with that setup.....I used to have a intel core I7 920 bloomfield, wich isnt that much better than yours. + a GTX 275, wich is about the same ( a tiny bit worse ) than your video card, and i can play everything on ultra.

If u have 4 slots of ram, try to put another 2 + 2 ram in, or replace 1 with 4Gb so u get to 6Gb ram. Your pc will run a lot smoother.

Ok, ill take a look ina sec to see what room i've got for expansion as i cant remember and i do have shadows on low. In 25 man raids i have everything low except particle density and projected textures and still get less than 20 fps.

OC that cpu, I have a Q9400 c2q running at 3.3ghz with stock cooler, And I'm getting 25~ish fps in 25mans with Fair shadows and rest on ultra, I have a gts 450 so your GPU is better in that regards aswell.

You need to upgrade your platform (motherboard, cpu, ram) to see real performance gains. Your graphics card and the amount of RAM you have is more than enough for WoW. The bottleneck is your CPU. Most modern games (Blizzard titles included) require at least 3ghz (you're at 2.5ghz right now).

Damn casuals and their vending machines. Back in my day, We had to go all the way from Orgrimmar to Desolace to pick up chips from the store. we had to do an extensive attunement quest to get into the store and we had to assemble 39 other people to fight the many other trash mobs, i mean trash food, to get to the chip isle. Oh and most of us couldn't even afford our epic car mount to drive there, we had to settle for our 60% bike mounts.

You need to upgrade your platform (motherboard, cpu, ram) to see real performance gains. Your graphics card and the amount of RAM you have is more than enough for WoW. The bottleneck is your CPU. Most modern games (Blizzard titles included) require at least 3ghz (you're at 2.5ghz right now).

This has nothing to do with GHz really, it's about the architecture of his CPU, which is dated compared to recent i-series.

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OC that cpu, I have a Q9400 c2q running at 3.3ghz with stock cooler, And I'm getting 25~ish fps in 25mans with Fair shadows and rest on ultra, I have a gts 450 so your GPU is better in that regards aswell.

Framerate on 1280x1024 monitor is about double compared to OP's 1920x1080 so your experiences does not really apply here.

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